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Afterlife Ends with More Questions Than Answers

RJ Carter · November 18, 2014

The BBC series AFTERLIFE starring Lesley Sharp and Andrew Lincoln comes to a full stop after only two seasons, leaving behind a number of questions that will never be answered -- which, for a series dealing with the eternal questions, is just how it ought to be. Maybe.

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Krampus with Zenescope's Holiday GFT

RJ Carter · November 17, 2014

It would be an easy, predictable thing for the folks at Zenescope to make a mythical character like Santa Claus the focus of their holiday issue. Which is probably why they did exactly the opposite, and chose a more obscure holiday-related icon to weave a story around: Krampus!

The Box Office Boo Boo That Tanks Dumb and Dumber To

RJ Carter · November 13, 2014

A single scene can elevate a mediocre film into a great film. By the same token, a single scene can take a mediocre film and taint it to the point that it's all audiences will remember.

Crag Banyon Saddled with Superhero Woes in Flying Blind

RJ Carter · November 11, 2014

Crag Banyon is a private investigator cut from the same cloth as Sam Spade and Mickey Spillane. Unfortunately, his world is a Terry Pratchett-like mishmash of Christmas elves, underworld demons, anthropomorphic personifications of ideals -- and superheroes.

True Blood Almost Good to the Last Drop

RJ Carter · November 11, 2014

During the first few episodes of the seventh and final season of TRUE BLOOD, it was starting to look as though the question wasn't "How was it going to end?" but rather "Who was gonig to be left?" Death after death of recurring characters drove home the finality to the viewers -- it was really going to be over, thes

Marvel and Disney's Big Hero 6 Is Bigtime Fun

Jeff Ritter · November 7, 2014

“Big Hero 6”…are you kidding me? When I heard that Marvel had greenlighted this project sometime back, I just shook my head. “Ant-Man?” “Guardians of the Galaxy?” “Big Hero 6?” Did somebody lose a bet?

Wallis, Foxx Headline Modern Take on Classic Annie

RJ Carter · November 6, 2014

My favorite version of ANNIE is the 1982 version with Albert Finney and Carol Burnett -- even though every version out there is the same story, with the same songs. All you can basically do is change the actors and alter the dialogue a bit.